We will NOT be in the back room. Seating will be very limited (About 10 people) so please sign up at:

Election night get-together

Tuesday, Nov 8, 2016, 7:00 PM

Carelli’s of Boulder30th and Baseline Boulder, CO

1 freedom increasers Attending

Come join Bill Gibson and Ralph Shnelvar at Carelli’s for drinks, jubilation, and solace.We will NOT be in the back room. We will be in the main restaurant. It will be noisy.Ralph will bring a laptop. If you can, please bring yours. It’s unlikely power will be available.

In an email to me Mark wrote:
– – –Whether you believe man-made climate change or not. Whether you believe that renewables or more fossil fuels are the path to energy independence doesn’t matter. Whether it’s a government regulated monopoly or a local government monopoly, it will still be a monopoly. Boulder is $17M down the road toward municipalization, and the purported “off-ramps” seem like distant, fading blips in the rear view mirror. Using the city’s criteria for success: Democratization, Decarbonization and Decentralization of our energy, the Muni fails on all counts.

From https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sunearth/news/flare-impacts.html#.V8SDMbHr1hE
– – –.. coronal mass ejection or CME … solar explosions propel bursts of particles and electromagnetic fluctuations into Earth’s atmosphere. Those fluctuations could induce electric fluctuations at ground level that could blow out transformers in power grids. A CME’s particles can also collide with crucial electronics onboard a satellite and disrupt its systems.In an increasingly technological world, where almost everyone relies on cellphones, and GPS controls not just your in-car map system, but also airplane navigation and the extremely accurate clocks that govern financial transactions, space weather is a serious matter.But it is a problem the same way hurricanes are a problem. One can protect oneself with advance information and proper precautions.– – –

Russell Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution.

Roberts hosts the weekly podcast EconTalk–hour-long conversations with authors, economists, and business leaders. Past guests include Milton Friedman, Nassim Taleb, Christopher Hitchens, Marc Andreessen, Joseph Stiglitz, and John Bogle. EconTalk was named podcast of the year in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Over 425 episodes are available at EconTalk.org and on iTunes at no charge.

From fad food diets and wonder herbs to energy healing and nexus knowledge, these days it seems everyone has the latest cure or technological marvel. But how do we tell the genuine from the junk? (Hint: one of the 4 things listed just now is completely made up.)

If you think you can’t be fooled, think again. The purveyors of pseudoscience are very skilled at presenting themselves as legitimate enterprises. Using 21st-century-sounding phrases such as “intuitive technology,” “clinical herbalism” and “neurotransmitter balancing,” they cloak themselves as real science to peddle their bogus methodologies.

While these entities are nothing new in Colorado, they have become more powerful and more dangerous, and we are starting to see the consequences of their influence. People are using superstition and magic to treat medical conditions, holding beliefs about biotechnologies that aren’t true, and ignoring scientific consensuses in favor of personal biases.

With fun and good humor, Tim O’Shea will take you through a checklist to spot the key red flags that reveal certain products and services as nonscientific. We’ll also discuss the increasingly negative impact these entities are having on public health, as well as the social and political implications of their lobbying the state legislature to get their dangerous ideologies passed into law.

Tim O’Shea is the founder and director of the Colorado Alliance for the Understanding of Science (CAUSe), a 501(c)3 educational organization dedicated to expanding, promoting and improving the public understanding of science in Colorado.
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